Ochm.] XXXV. ocHNACE^. (Alfred W. Bennett.) 525 



5. O. brevipes, Planch, in Hooh. Lond. Jour. Bat. v. 652 ; flowers 

 nearly sessile in compound fascicles, anthers somewhat longer than the 

 filaments, styles undivided. 



Psan. 



Liaw» unknown, deciduous. Flowers 4-| in. across. Seflals elliptical. Petals 5, 

 obovate, suddenly narrowed into a claw. Styles about as long as stamens. 



2. GOMFKXA., Schreb. 



,,; Glabrous trees or shrubs. Xeawes alternate shining, 2-stipulate. Flowers 

 yellow, in axillary or terminal racemes or umbels. Sepals 5, coloured^ 

 persistent. Petals 5, imbricate. Dis^ thick, lobed. Stamens 10, inserted 

 at the base of the disk, iilaments very short ; anthers opening by terminal 

 pores. Ovari/ deeply 5-6-lobed, lobes 1-celIed ; styles connate, stigma 

 simple ;. ovules solitary in each cell, erect. Drupes 5 or fewer, seated on a 

 broad disk, 1-seeded. Seed erect, exalbuminous.-^DiSTEiB. Chiefly tropical 

 South American ; a few are Asiatic and African ; species about 80. 



1. G. ang'ustifolia, Vahl Symb. ii. 49 ; leaves coriaceous narrowly 

 ovate acute serrulate sessile, flowers in compound rather dense terminal 

 racemes, drupes ovoid. DG. Prodr. i. 736 ; W. & A. Prodr. 152 ; Qrah. 

 Cat. Bomb. PI. 38 ; Thwaites Enum. 71 ; Planch, in Hook. Lond. Joum. 

 Bot. vi. 3. G. zeylanica, DC. I.e. ; Wall. Cat. 2802. G. malabarica, DV. I.e. 

 Ochna zeylanica, Zam. Walkera serrata, Willd.,'DC. Prodr. i. 7S7. Meesia 

 serrata, Gaertn. JB'rud. i. t. 70. — Bwrm. M. Zeyl. t. 66 ; Rheede Eort. Mai. v. 

 t. 48 and 52 (monstrous). 



Southern provinces of the Western PBHiHsntA, from the South Concan to Travancor ; 

 SmoAPOEE, Walker; common in Ceylon. — Distkeb. Philippines. 



A small tree, 30 ft. high. Leaves about 5 in. by 1 in., Terj shining; stipules linear, 

 deciduous. Flowers about J in. across, very numerous, on slender pedicels. Sepah 

 oval, coriaceous. Petals longer than sepals, deciduous. Anthers elongated, about as 

 long as petals, nearly sessile. OarpeU obovate or reniform ; styles 10, larger than 

 stamens, persistent in fruit, stigma q^uite entire. Drupes about the size of peas, 

 smooth, shining, reticulated. 



2. G. sumatrana, Jack in Mai.' Misc. No. v. p- 29, and in Hook Bot. 

 Misc. ii. 77 ; leaves narrowly ovate serrulate, panicle very diffuse. Wall. 

 Cat. 2803. O. sumatrensis, Planch, in Hook Ic. PL t. 712, and Hook Lond. 

 Joum. Bot. vi. 2. Ochna crocea, Gh-iff. Not. iv. 463. Euthemis elegan- 

 tissima {?), Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 305. E,» pulcherrima, 

 WcM. Gai. 2518. 



SmcAPOEE, TTaZZicA; Malacca, Mamgay.—T)isrsss. Sumatra, Borneo. 

 Very closely allied to G. angustifolia, there being scarcely any characters by which 

 it can be distinguished, except the much more diffuse oharactur of the panicle. 



3- G. Kookeri, Planch, in Hook Lond. Journ, Bot. vi. 3; leaves 

 coriaceous narrowly ovate entire shortly petioled, flowers in terminal 

 umbels, drupes ovoid. ' 



Pbnano, PhiUips; Malacca, Maingay. _ 



Leaves »bout 4 in. by IJ in., narrowed into the short petiole; stipules deciduous. 

 Flowers rather smaller than in &. angustifolia, on long slender pedicels, 10-20 in an 

 umbel. Sep<ds ovate, coriaceous. Styles quite connate ; stigma entire. Drvpe smooth, 

 not reticulated. — This species is rather a Brachenridgia (A. Gray, Bot. U. S. Expl. 

 Exped. 361) than a Oomphia, if the two genera are to be kept distinct, and Brachenr- 

 nigia not rather to be considered as a section of Oomphia, as suggested by Oliver (in 

 Hook. lo. Plant, xi. t. 1096). Brachemidgia is not otherwise a Malayan genus. 



